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ANOTHER SOUL GONE WRONG
(BY HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON)
House Bill No. 36 of the legislature of th e sta'e of
Washington, has for its object the prevention of, using
the vulgar vernacular of th 5 streets, "white folks from
marrying niggers and chinks," the same having been
proposed by one Robert A. Tripple, who hails from the
forty seventh legislative district, where a heavy per
c ntage of (he electors are colored citizens, and who
voted for him in the general election not knowing he
eland stinely entertained such radical and revolution
ary ideas. Since the minds of the living citizens of
the Puget Sound coun ry runn th not to the contrary,
this self same Tripple has been importuning his fellow
citizens to, "give me an oflis," bu' they seamed to have
realized that there was no m thod in his madness, hence
his ravings were given (little, if any, consideration..
However the freaks of the direct primary law are
various and varied, as was seen in Tripple being nom
inated as a running mate of E. Heis'er Guie, the present
speaker of the house. Briefly diagnosing the freaks of
(he primary election of last September in the forty
seventh legislative district; i' nominated, in the person
of E. H. Guie, a distinguished lawyer and parliamentar
ian, and at the saim time nominated a rather old fashion
jackass which later developed into a short s'ghted
political "damnphool," in the person of Robt. A. Tripple.
So freakish has the direct primary become, not only
in this state but in o her states of this country, that its
repeal in every state, where it is in vogue, is being
almos universally advocated and well may it be if it
is to continue to sleet at one and the same time, and
for like positions, a man power and a man pro3titut ,
as in the persons of Guie and Tripple for the present
legislature. The day after the primary elec iion last Sep
tember he was heard to say, so goe.-, the story, "My God ! I
have been running for an office ever since I have been
a man and this is the first time I have cv r gotten
within speaking dis ance of cne." Any daniphool on th
Republican ticket though nominated by the freakishness
of a direct primary law, could have been elected at the
last November election, owing to the general opposition
to Woodrow Wilsonsm by the citizenry of this country,
which quite explains the success of Robert A. Trippli
at the general election, which gave him the right to a
seat in the Seventeenth legislature of the state of Wash
ington, in which from the very outset of the session
he has d monstrated marked evidences of being, the
proverbial "bull in a China shop." Even norn compos
menti occasionally mistrust themselves, and in Tripple
trying to have the legislature enact a law making it a
statutory offense, a felony if you please, for white folks
to marry "niggers and chmks," it appears that not only
this particular one has lost confidence in himself of
not being able to longer confine his connubial relations
to white women, but feels hims ;lf drifting, drifting, to
the awful impending black —yellow peril and like the
charmed b;rd that sees and feels itself being slowly but
surely drawn into th e yawning chasm chirps loud and
long for help to br ak the binding spell. Mr. Tripple
may be in eminent danger of thus being engulfed in
the black—yellow peril y but, those who know him best,
do not share in his alleged forebodings, on the other
hand are rather inclined to the opinion that so far as
the colored citizens are concerned, Bob Tripple would
have to move over Mother Earth a good deal faster
CAYTON'S MONTHLY
than ever did the famous Jay Eye See when in the
heigth of his sunning glory, for him to get near enough
to a. colored woman (o talk marriage to her, if she
r motely suspected his malicious intentions.
According to the report of the 1920 census there are
in (he United States something like six million black
white mixed blood citizens, for the most part traceable
to tli concubinage of white men with colored women.
If then there be such ecstacy in the indulgence of
stolen sweets, whats the .excuse, justification or
moral turpitude In legalizing such human debauchery?
In all tin former slave holding sta'es of this country
it rreans a black man's life to marry or cohabit with a
whi c woman, so zealously are the white men guarding
the purity of the white race, and yet in every one of
those states at least, half of the "colored population"
are mulattoes and upwards in complexion. Evidently
the colored women ar^ determined to blot from existance
the black man, and to that end, the entire male white
population is beng pr ssed into service—nolens volens.
Aint it a shame? Th 5 enacting of freakish legislation
as would be HOUSE BILL No. 36 should it pass is
nothing short of putting a premium on licentiousness
and the man or woman white or black who does not
know and realize this is so light in the head that the
water therein rushes round like a mustard seed in a
tin can tied to a wagon wheel. While might never
make- right, yet might frequently makes tight, which
has a duplex eff ct. Periodically comes forth some
lumen freak rrcf^a'ir irp) supernatural, rowers and
possessing th ) elixer for all racial incongruities,
but in time he or she falls by the way s rde. House
Bill No. 3G will, in v.W human probabili'y go the way of
all other such bills in this sta*r> and politically speaking
at the close of the present legislature the above would
bo race problom solver, will pass into Cleveland's land
of Innocuous lesue ud 5 and the world will go on as
though there had never been a Tripple on the wheel.
This intermarriage issue seems to bob up serenely
from time to time and at times and from persons least
expected. If those pretending to desire the "puriy of
the white race should practice what they preach such
a s ate of affairs might be plausible, but they are down
right hypocrites—legislating one way and living another
and this is especially true of the South, where the most
Of such hynocricy originated. Just think of the incon
sisency of white men burning black men at the stake
for carnally knowing white women when every mother's
son of the white men is giving to the world a family
of half cast children by colored women. Coming closer
home, can any fair minded man or woman see or realize
any crying need for the enactment of such a law in this
sta'e? It is cafe to say, there are not to exceed twenty
fiv> colored citizens or Mongolian aliens in the whole
state married to white persons but there are some,
and even if this bill becomes a law, there will still be
others, British Columbia being too near to prevent it.
Periodically t.hte anti-misc.egela'ion skeleton is dragged
from its hidings and given an airing by some tin horn
politicians with far more guts than brains, evidenMy
with the hope of using it a^ a stepping stone to political
agrandizement, but discovers when it is quite too late,
that its liko unto a two edged sword that cuts both ways.
It has failed in the past and will fail now and it will
continue to fail, the mou 4hings of hybrid demagogs? to
the contrary notwithstanding.